Let us count the days

[oshfdk]

I think it validates it, if you start at 356 and count your way clockwise along the female characters you'll land on 365 8 places away, or am I misunderstanding?

If I understand it correctly, you are counting days clockwise from otalar (356) to otaral (365), in which case otalam, immediately following otalar, should be 357 and otaram, immediately preceding otaral, should be 364, but they both end in -am.